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Excerpt from Historical Research and Educational Labor, Illustrated in the Work of Elisha Reynolds Potter: An Address Delivered Before the Rhode Island Historical Society, July 11, 1882
Democratic members of the Rhode Island General Assembly sent to the House a memorial asking the House to inquire into the conduct of the President of the United States in rela tion to the late troubles in Rhode Island. A select committee was appointed, to whom the memorial was referred. Mr. Burke, of this committee, moved for power to send for per sons and papers. Mr. Cousin, of the same committee, moved that the select committee be discharged from further considera tion of the subject. Mr. Potter addressed the House, urging his reasons why the first of these motions should not prevail and the subject be not further acted upon. His argument was unsuccessful, the committee was contin ued and two reports came from it. A majority report now known as Mr. Burke's and minority report as Mr. Cousin's, much less in size and much less known than the former. Mr. Potter now became deeply interested in the subject of popular education, and for the succeeding ten voars he gave his entire time to the gathering and dissemination of ideas relating to the subject. Laws were lacking. Mr. Potter entered at once into the work, and laws were made. There upon he prepared for popular use Remarks on the Provisions of the School Laws and on the Duties of the different officers and bodies under them. These he followed by a set of forms, or precedents for proceedings in the administration of the system, and still further by a specimen of rules and regula tions for adoption by the school committees of the several towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
